good morning to viewers here in the united states and around the world. it is thursday, january 7th. i m brianna keilar with john berman. we are beginning with a rare opportunity for a struggling president to reenergize his party and to make history in the process. supreme court justice stephen breyer set to announce his retirement at the white house today, giving president biden a chance to deliver on a campaign promise to nominate the first african american female justice to the bench. let s get a sense of the timing, short list, and republican plans to slow down the process. jeremy diamond is there. jeremy, if i also in on the details. reporter: well, we learned yesterday justice breyer is set to retire after 30 years. he was tight-lipped on this. without a formal announcement, the president would not weigh in. but today they are set to make this official. and this opening gives biden a chance to nominate a justice to the supreme court and potentially make history
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will respect breyer s timeline for any official announcement. we re coming on the air with breaking news. nbc news learned stephen g. breyer will step down as a justice on the supreme court. there s been no announcement from justice breyer. let him make whatever statement he s going to make and i will be happy to talk about it later. the president saying he won t talk specifics yet, a matter of respect and decorum, but news this big waits for no one. the u.s. senate gearing up for a major confirmation clash going into the mid-terms. a senator with a vote on the matter joins our special coverage later on tonight s show and white house staff already outlining some of the likely plans. breyer expected to announce his retirement as early as tomorrow officially. reports are he would leave at the end of this term, giving the white house plenty of time to select and push a nominee. now, is that breyer s way of also shaping the timing of his own replacement process? i actually
keilar. major news this morning in a story that cnn broke overnight. for the first time, the department of justice is public acknowledging that it is looking into a specific aspect of the plot from high-level donald trump allies to overturn the 2020 election. this was a cnn exclusive. we learned that federal prosecutors are reviewing the fake electoral college certifications from 2020 that falsely declared former president trump the winner of seven states, states that he lost. this is the deputy attorney general lisa monaco. on the issue you raised in terms of fraudulent elector certifications has been reported. we ve received those referrals. our prosecutors are looking at those. and i can t say anything more on ongoing investigations. but more broadly, look, the attorney general has been very, very clear we are going to follow the facts and the law wherever they lead to address conduct of any kind and at any level that is part of an assault on our democracy. the fake el
public. the other developments that relate to all this january 6th business is the committee now scouring those trump documents that he failed to hide, losing at the supreme court. it was just last week. it was just last week that the supreme court handed down that big 8-1 decision, a stinging rebuke for trump. for people who say how does this all work, does any of it matter? the rule of law is holding. days later the committee is receiving and processing what looks to be about 770 pages of once secret documents from inside the inner sanctum and the upper levels of the trump white house. what s in there? the short answer is we don t have all the texts yet, but we do have reporting on some of the examples, the categories. meeting notes at the time they were preparing for january 6th, drafts of the actual january 6th speech which could be incriminating. we know trump wanted to hide it, as well as high level correspondence, that could be emails, notes, from then white house chie